If you’re going to steal a car, you’d better know how to drive it. An attempted car-jacking went south last weekend after the perpetrator couldn’t get the vehicle in gear, prompting the victim to offer his attacker a ride.

After robbing a man of $24 at gunpoint in a Saint Louis University parking lot, an as-yet unidentified criminal attempted to hop into his victim’s car and drive away, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes. But instead of fleeing to safety, the robber reportedly could not figure out how to work the car’s manual transmission — so the understanding victim (who was still faced with a firearm) offered to drive him to his destination.